People Consulting - Organizational Change jobs at Ey in Canada, Vancouver

The Mobility Tax services include Canadian and US personal income tax, compliance and advisory services; mobility policy design; executive compensation advice; employer tax advice; and global coordination. You’ll be part of a team with a wide variety of experiences and a supportive environment.

Your key responsibilities

• Contribute to client satisfaction by providing clients with exceptional quality and timely work products
• Determine appropriate and optimal Canadian and US filing positions
• Prepare complex personal income tax returns
• Review personal income tax returns
• Advise clients on the tax implications of working in another tax jurisdiction
• Research on Tax technical matters to support both compliance and advisory deliverables
• Contribute to the national education program by preparing and/or delivering tax technical material
• Leverage technology to maximize productivity

Skills and attributes for success

• Effective communicator and confident team player who can not only collaborate with people from various teams but also prioritize shifting demands
• Willingness to contribute to a flexible, stable, and team-oriented working culture that fosters personal development and a positive attitude
• Commitment to learning in a tax technology environment
• Ability to work in a high pressured and time sensitive environment
• Excellent managerial, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills
• The ability to manage time spent against budget and work alongside team members to ensure the timely completion of deliverables while providing exceptional client service

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Bachelor's degree, preferably with an emphasis in accounting, finance, or a related field; or a diploma in accounting with a minimum of 3 years of relevant tax experience; or equivalent experience in industry
• Excellent Knowledge of current automated tax processing systems and tax laws
• Exceptional PC proficiency including Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint

What we offer

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $65,500 to $108,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

Client Delivery

• Support delivery of solutions across EY’s Workforce Advisory service offerings, including operating model design, organization design, change management,
• learning and development, leadership development, culture transformation and DEI, strategic workforce planning, HR transactions and talent assessments and
• strategies, ensuring high-quality outcomes within expected timeframes.
• Lead self and/or junior team members to develop high-quality deliverables, demonstrating critical thinking, storytelling, attention to detail, and ability to convey key
• messages effectively to various audiences (including executives) through slideshow presentations and other collaboration tools (e.g. Miro).
• Drive project management activities for the engagement team, ensuring that meetings are scheduled, meeting minutes captured, and actions tracked.
• Write clear, effective communications tailored to the client/audience with support from project lead.
• Build strong relationships with client, project team and internal EY team.

Business Development

• Lead development of proposal sections, tailoring language and services to the client context.
• Proactively support on-selling, through excellent delivery, on-going relationships with clients and shaping next steps or future work.
• Support with generating new business opportunities by understanding EY’s service offerings and contributing to on-sell and expansion conversations.

Practice Development

• Support and contribute to practice and service offering development efforts and/or initiatives with guidance and mentorship from more senior team members.
• Demonstrate the ability to balance project delivery with contributions to practice development and service offering efforts.
• Bring relevant learnings to team conversations, ensuring innovation and leading practice are at the forefront of our solutions.
• Understand the WFA practice strategy and its integration with EY’s broader operating model.

People Leadership and Teaming

• Actively contribute to a positive team culture, leading by example and fostering collaboration and open communication.
• Work collaboratively with WFA team and other EY service lines.
• Engage in learning activities throughout the year, ensuring minimum learning requirements are met and learning goals achieved.
• Seek feedback from more junior team members, peers, and above for self-improvement and skills enhancement and act on development feedback to improve performance.
• Engage in mentorship activities - providing constructive feedback to peers and junior staff, aiding in their professional development and sharing expertise / experiences with team members.

Technical skills for success:

• Basic knowledge and familiarity of one of our WFA offerings, including change management, operating model design, organization design, learning and development, culture transformation and DEI, strategic workforce planning, and talent optimization.
• Strong ability to use Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Project) to create documents, analyze data, develop presentations, and manage communications effectively. Proficient with other tools such as Power BI, and Smartsheet.
• Proficient in analyzing data and using visualization tools to present insights and support decision-making.

Leadership & business skills for success:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills; can manage multiple competing deadlines and multi-task across project delivery, business development, practice development and leadership/teaming.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills with ability to facilitate sessions and have a high level of emotional intelligence.
• A strong work ethic, high levels of motivation, proactivity and a growth mindset.
• Ability to think outside of the box, thrive on new challenges and work in ambiguity
• Enjoy a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• Ability to coach and mentor peers and junior staff members to achieve intended outcomes in a timely manner.
• This role involves interaction with clients operating nationally and globally where fluency in English is required.
• Flexibility and ability to travel.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree and approximately 3-5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 2-4 years of related work experience.
• Preferably, professional service experience, with a global management consultancy firm, or niche consultancy in which you gained exposure to a large-scale project(s).
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: Change Management, Organizational Design, Organizational/ Operating Model Design, Culture Change & DEI,
• Workforce. Planning, Talent Strategy.
• Project management experience
• A primary degree and relevant post-graduate qualification (preferred).
• PROSCI or other industry standard Change Management Certification considered an asset.
• The willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment.

What we offer

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $88,000 to $132,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

Client Delivery

• Lead change management projects and/or large change management workstreams, from planning through implementation – including managing project resources and budgets effectively and identifying and effectively managing and mitigating risks and issues.
• Demonstrate technical competence in change management, across various change types and transformation projects.
• Act as a trusted advisor for clients, project team and EY’s internal teams to deliver solutions and solve client challenges
• Encourage and facilitate collaboration amongst team members and promote an inclusive working environment.
• Lead self and/or team in the creation of well-structured, high-quality deliverables that demonstrate attention to detail, critical thinking, and practicality, while aligning with client needs, context, and audiences.
• Contribute to generate profitable revenue by identifying additional engagement opportunities and building lasting relationships with clients; mentor teams in building similar connections and strong relationships with clients.

Business Development

• Lead the development of proposals and sales materials to support business growth.
• Generate new business opportunities by understanding EY’s service offerings and proactively driving on-sell and expansion opportunities for WFA and/or across business lines.
• Proactively support on-selling, through excellent delivery, on-going relationships with clients and shaping next steps or future work.
• Develop long-term client relationships and networks, fostering deep connections with clients and other EY team members across all practices.

Practice Development

• Lead practice development and service offering initiatives, inclusive of team leadership, project management, and execution.
• Responsible for supporting the development of our People Consulting practice by enhancing change management methodologies, driving the creation of related intellectual property, and developing go-to-market materials for the Organizational Change Management service offering.
• Play an active role in recruitment efforts, including referrals, events, interviews, etc. to bring the best talent to the team.
• Stay up to date on latest industry trends to contribute to thought leadership and bringing best practice to clients.

People Leadership and Teaming

• Exemplify EY values and demonstrate a strong investment in the practice, our people, and their experience.
• Accountable for timely and honest feedback to team members, effectively identifying and leveraging skills, escalating performance issues as appropriate and investing time in coaching / development
• Manage teams to meet project, business development, or practice development objectives, knowing how to delegate work, leveraging a diverse team to achieve results.
• Lead by example and focus on developing others, rewarding and recognizing teams and building a safe, inclusive and engaging team environment.
• Engage in learning activities throughout the year, ensuring learning requirements are met and learning goals achieved.
• Seek feedback from more junior team members, peers, and above for self-improvement and skills enhancement and act on development feedback to improve performance.

Technical skills for success:

• Strong knowledge and application of relevant change frameworks like ADKAR and Kotter's 8-Step Process.
• Exceptional skills using Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Project) to create documents, analyze data, develop presentations, and manage communications effectively.
• Ability to analyze data related to change initiatives and employee feedback.
• Knowledge of instructional design and adult learning principles to develop effective training programs.
• Skills in identifying and managing stakeholder needs and concerns.
• Intermediate proficiency in proposal writing, project management, risk and budget management

Leadership & business skills for success:

• Strong leadership skills, through experience leading teams or managing staff on projects
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including storytelling, adapting messaging and style to suit the needs of different audiences. Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to design meeting agendas or workshop activities to design creative solutions, build commitment to outcomes and drive decision making.
• A strong work ethic, high levels of motivation and a growth mindset.
• Ability to think outside of the box, thrive on new challenges and work in ambiguity.
• Enjoy a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Ability to manage time and multi-task across project delivery, business development, practice development and leadership/team management.
• Strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence.
• This role involves interaction with clients operating nationally and globally where fluency in English is required.
• Flexibility and ability to travel.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree and approximately 6-8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 5-7 years of related work experience
• At least 3 years of professional service experience, with a global management consultancy firm, or niche consultancy in which you gained exposure to large-scale project.
• Experience leading engagements in one or more of the following functional domains – supply chain, IT, finance, customer, sales & marketing. Should have worked in large multi-disciplinary teams as part of functional and enterprise-wide transformation engagement.
• Progressive experience leading change management teams throughout large, complex transformations
• PROSCI or other industry standard change managements certification considered an asset
• An understanding of the opportunities, challenges and issues in at least one of the sectors we serve (e.g., Oil & Gas, Health, Government, Telecommunications, Power &
• Utilities, Insurance, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Mining & Metals, etc.).
• A proven track record in managing and analysing large datasets and using analytics in project execution. Deep expertise in working with and engaging clients in discussions around the use of digital assets in the delivery of org. design projects.
• Experience in selling and delivering projects that cover the full life-cycle of assessment, design and implementation support
• The willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery

• Support delivery of solutions across EY’s Workforce Advisory service offerings, including operating model design, organization design, change management, learning and development, leadership development, culture transformation and DEI, strategic workforce planning, HR transactions and talent assessments and strategies, ensuring high-quality outcomes within expected timeframes.
• Lead self and/or junior team members to develop high-quality deliverables, demonstrating critical thinking, storytelling, attention to detail, and ability to convey key messages effectively to various audiences (including executives) through slideshow presentations and other collaboration tools (e.g. Miro).
• Drive project management activities for the engagement team, ensuring that meetings are scheduled, meeting minutes captured, and actions tracked.
• Write clear, effective communications tailored to the client/audience with support from project lead.
• Build strong relationships with client, project team and internal EY team.

Business Development

• Lead development of proposal sections, tailoring language and services to the client context.
• Proactively support on-selling, through excellent delivery, on-going relationships with clients and shaping next steps or future work.
• Support with generating new business opportunities by understanding EY’s service offerings and contributing to on-sell and expansion conversations.

Practice Development

• Support and contribute to practice and service offering development efforts and/or initiatives with guidance and mentorship from more senior team members.
• Demonstrate the ability to balance project delivery with contributions to practice development and service offering efforts.
• Bring relevant learnings to team conversations, ensuring innovation and leading practice are at the forefront of our solutions.
• Understand the WFA practice strategy and its integration with EY’s broader operating model.

People Leadership and Teaming

• Actively contribute to a positive team culture, leading by example and fostering collaboration and open communication.
• Work collaboratively with WFA team and other EY service lines.
• Engage in learning activities throughout the year, ensuring minimum learning requirements are met and learning goals achieved.
• Seek feedback from more junior team members, peers, and above for self-improvement and skills enhancement and act on development feedback to improve performance.
• Engage in mentorship activities - providing constructive feedback to peers and junior staff, aiding in their professional development and sharing expertise / experiences with team members.

Technical skills for success:

• Basic knowledge and familiarity of one of our WFA offerings, including change management, operating model design, organization design, learning and development, culture transformation and DEI, strategic workforce planning, and talent optimization.
• Strong ability to use Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Project) to create documents, analyze data, develop presentations, and manage communications effectively. Proficient with other tools such as Power BI, and Smartsheet.
• Proficient in analyzing data and using visualization tools to present insights and support decision-making.

Leadership & business skills for success:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills; can manage multiple competing deadlines and multi-task across project delivery, business development, practice development and leadership/teaming.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills with ability to facilitate sessions and have a high level of emotional intelligence.
• A strong work ethic, high levels of motivation, proactivity and a growth mindset.
• Ability to think outside of the box, thrive on new challenges and work in ambiguity
• Enjoy a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• Ability to coach and mentor peers and junior staff members to achieve intended outcomes in a timely manner.
• This role involves interaction with clients operating nationally and globally where fluency in English is required.
  Flexibility and ability to travel.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree and approximately 3-5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 2-4 years of related work experience.
• Preferably, professional service experience, with a global management consultancy firm, or niche consultancy in which you gained exposure to a large-scale project(s).
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: Change Management, Organizational Design, Organizational/ Operating Model Design, Culture Change & DEI, Workforce. Planning, Talent Strategy.
• Project management experience
• A primary degree and relevant post-graduate qualification (preferred).
• PROSCI or other industry standard Change Management Certification considered an asset.
• The willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future.  Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $88,000 to $132,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of complex change concepts. Lead client engagement teams and work with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services. Develop and successfully manage to project budget.
• Deliver quality services. Value and model excellent client service by establishing goals and implementation plans to achieve a high quality deliverables and within expected timeframes. Monitor progress, manage risk and confirm key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with client management. Focus on deliverables and client business priorities. Manage expectations of service. Understand the client's industry and recognize key performance drivers and business trends.
• Develop people. Provide constructive on-the-job feedback/training. Foster an innovative and team-oriented work environment.
• Demonstrate high levels of technical and professional knowledge and quickly assimilate new knowledge. Keep up-to-date with current developments and trends in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.
• Generate new business opportunities. Understand Ernst & Young and its service lines and actively assess/present ways to serve clients. Develop long-term client relationships and networks. Develop relationships with other Ernst & Young team members across all practices to serve client needs.
• Flexibility and ability to travel; willingness to travel on short notice to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 30%
  

Skills and attributes for success

• Project management experience
• Work collaboratively in a team environment (knows when to lead and when to follow)
• Experience managing staff on multiple projects and providing direction to team members
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills , including proficiency in excel, powerpoint, etc…
• High level of motivation and a self starting attitude
• Ability to think outside of the box, thrive on new challenges
• Strong work ethic
  

To qualify for the role you must have

• A bachelor's degree and approximately 5-8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4-6 years of related work experience
• A degree and/or master's degree with an emphasis in business, human resources, psychology
• Approximately 4+ years of experience in providing advisory services in a number of the following change enablement areas: change management, stakeholder management, communications, organizational design, leadership development, training, governance, workforce strategies, human resources transformation, talent management and culture
• Experience in selling and delivering projects that cover the full life-cycle of assessment, design and implementation support
• Demonstrated record in driving revenue within existing clients and in developing new prospects at the "c" level of fortune 500 companies
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Effective organization and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $110,000 to $165,500. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.

Your key responsibilities

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the people components of large-scale transformation. Work with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services, in particular in change and organizational design.
• Deliver quality services. Value and model excellent client service by establishing goals and implementation plans to achieve a high-quality deliverables and within expected timeframes, working mostly indepently. Monitor progress, manage risk and confirm key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with client management. Focus on deliverables and client business priorities. Manage expectations of service. Understand the client's industry and recognize key performance drivers and business trends.
• Develop people. Provide constructive on-the-job feedback/training. Foster an innovative and team-oriented work environment.
• Demonstrate high levels of technical and professional knowledge and quickly assimilate new knowledge. Keep up-to-date with current developments and trends in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.
• Generate new business opportunities. Understand Ernst & Young and its service lines and actively assess/present ways to serve clients. Develop long-term client relationships and networks. Develop relationships with other Ernst & Young team members across all practices to serve client needs.
• Flexibility and ability to travel; willingness to travel on short notice to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 30%

Skills and attributes for success

• Work collaboratively in a team environment (knows when to lead and when to follow)
• Experience supporting people components of transformation, such as: Change Management, Culture change, operating model and organizational design, strategic workforce planning, learning design and/or talent management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to think outside of the box, thrive on new challenges
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to adapt messaging and style to suit the needs of different audiences. Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to design meeting agendas or workshop activities to design creative solutions, build commitment to outcomes and drive decision making.
• High level of motivation and a self-starting attitude
• Strong work ethic
• Effective organization and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines
  

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A related bachelor's degree
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in providing relevant advisory services
• PROSCI or other industry standard Change Management Certification considered an asset
• Experience in delivering change solutions for all portions of project lifecycles, including Assessment, Design and Implementation
• Project management experience
  

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
  

The salary range for this job in British Columbia is $68,000 to $132,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and work location city.